Bobble-head Congress

Each branch of government -- legislative, executive and judicial -- has some constitutionally structured means of preventing the other branches from abusing power, since all power, in theory, derives from We, the People. Yet, as never before, the three branches are working in collusion. The result is that the office of the presidency is accountable to no body, and the Constitution can be flouted, American people lied to and political enemies destroyed with nary a whimper from anyone in Washington. The Congress is now an assemblage of 535 yes-men and women, as unimpressive a group of lackies as has ever disgraced the hallowed halls of the U.S. Capitol. While one need only pick a week, any week, to confirm this, the past week has been particularly instructive.

Imagine, if you would, 535 bobble-head figures all nodding yes and you would have Congress as it now stands. With only a few exceptions, no member in either house of Congress has been willing to tackle the White House head on on any issue. Rather than serving as a check to urestrained presidential power, Congress has become complicit in the Bush administration's rampant disregard for the Constitution they are all sworn to "...protect and defend from all enemies, foreign and domestic..." They have become the enemy. But our founding fathers provided us with the justification neccessary to remove the stain upon their memory and the Republic the fought and died for..."all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. --That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness."

The Bush administration has become destructive to these ends, and it is past time to seek their removal. By impeachment or election or by such means as were used by Mahatma Gandhi to bring down the British rule in India. It is time. No, it is past time...